[CentOS] ARGH!!! Instal fails at drive format time
Craig White
craig at tobyhouse.com
Tue Jan 8 00:11:24 UTC 2008
On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 19:04 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
> Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 05:14:05PM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> >
> >> Got all the way through the selection of packages. All those time
> >> consuming tasks and the install got to formating the drive and crashed on a
> >> format error!
> >>
> >> Since I know exactly how I want to lay out the partitions, is there a way I
> >> can boot from CD, and get into Disk Druid to set the partitions and do the
> >> formating. Then when I come to the install just select to keep the drive
> >> how it is?
> >>
> >> And I have to have LVM....
> >>
> >>
> >
> > You could hit ALT-F2 and set everything up from the console by hand
> > (including formatting) and then just tell disk druid _not_ to format.
> > I haven't tried that, but it feasibly might work...
> Do you mean right after booting off CD #1? alt-F2 does nothing F2 lists
> options like linux askmethod.
----
I think he meant <Control><ALT><F2>
Craig
More information about the CentOS
mailing list